Welcome to The Second Bite, a two-part invitation to midlife pleasure and potential, landing softly in your inbox each week.

This is your invitation to experience midlife as it was meant to be—sweet, curious, and yours to savor.

And because beginnings deserve care, I’ve prepared a little something to help you settle in…

For you with love—

  • I Will Not Die an Unlived Life by Dawna Markova: Click here to hear me read you a welcome poem that reflects the spirit of this newsletter.

  • The Second Bite Manifesto: A beautiful PDF for your journal or to hang in your space. Click here to download.

  • First Taste, Second Bite Playlist: A curated playlist to accompany your becoming. Songs to awaken, soothe, and inspire you. Click here to listen.

  • Found Poem Invitation: Tap into your creative wisdom. Click here to download your guide.

  • Browse The Second Bite Bookshelf & Apothecary: A lovingly gathered list of books & resources. (No affiliate links, just my personal favorites.)

This is a threshold moment. One where you get to choose yourself.

xx, Brooke

From the archives…

  • Eventually, every woman who stays away from her soul-home for too long, tires. This is as it should be. Then she seeks her skin again in order to revive her sense of self and soul, in order to restore her deep-eyed and oceanic knowing.

    ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

  • In the second half of life, the questions become: 'Who, apart from the roles you play, are you? What does the soul ask of you?

    ~ James Hollis

  • I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

    ~ Cheryl Strayed

  • You are that one thing you are looking for.

    ~ Audre Lorde

  • Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?

    ~ Danielle LaPorte